Post navigation

Feeling Lucky on St. Patrick’s Day

Me? I’m going to the gym and then, weather permitting, going for a walk. How’s that for excitement?

In most respects, I’m feeling quite lucky and blessed today. The only teensy downer is that my March Madness is now March Sadness. Our local basketball team, the University of Memphis Tigers, got knocked out of the first round of the NCAA tournament. Bummer. A friend and I were just saying yesterday morning that we didn’t have a good feeling about the game. St. Louis has a strong team. Odd mascot name, though: Billikens.

Billiken (source: Wikipedia)

Now does that look like a basketball player to you? They should’ve picked something more sensible as a mascot, like Tigers.

Everything else has been good, though, starting with my immense enjoyment of a prize package I won from Teresa, who blogs at SpiritGrooves and is one of the most beautiful people I’ve had the pleasure of meeting in our section of the blog world. She’s also a gifted jewelry maker, and as part of her 30 Days of Kindness campaign to celebrate the life of her niece, Rita, who was killed in a car accident at the age of 16, Teresa offered a prize package that included her custom jewelry. And I won!

Apologies for the bad lighting, but am I not the luckiest person on the planet? The necklace and earrings are amethyst and sterling (perfect for a green-eyed gal like me), and I caught several women in upscale Brentwood eyeballing them on Wednesday. The amethyst heart is also beautiful. I’ve been using it as my touchstone while completing this week’s paperwork.

And this wasn’t even all! There was aromatherapy oil and a card and a bookmark (more on that in another post) and the most heartwarming note from Teresa–it was like Christmas in Springtime, and I feel so blessed! Thank you, again, Teresa, for your generosity and for sharing your talent with me.

*happy sigh*

Although not nearly as wonderful, there were other happy, lucky things that happened this week:

I was disappointed this week that the market didn’t have fresh cut pineapple (or whole pineapple, for that matter), but it turns out they replaced it with watermelon! It’s not as good as summer melon, but it’s tasty enough for this watermelon-starved gal. I underestimated how much fruit was in these containers and bought two of them. Not sure if I can eat all of it before I head out for this week’s trip. I’ll just have to try harder.

Speaking of trip, yesterday morning, I stopped in at Goodwill to see if I could find a cute short-sleeved black shirt to wear for training (a requirement), but this was all I could find:

It’s a tad sheer, don’t you think? I don’t think my audience would listen to me if I wore that.

I also found these pants and pulled them off the rack mostly to make fun of them:

The more I looked at them, the more I kind of liked them. LOL They were my size, too. I didn’t even try them on, though, because I doubt I’d ever get up enough nerve to wear them in public. I dunno, maybe I’ll go back today and try them on. If I didn’t wear them, I could always make them into a pillow. Or a bedspread.

Anyway, none of that has anything to do with feeling lucky and blessed, unless you look at it laughter as a blessing, which I guess it IS.

Right now, I’m feeling lucky to have a gym that’s open and (I hope) not crowded at this early hour. Off I go!

I am going for a bike ride today and meeting John somewhere (he has a cold and not up to biking today) for a green treat! We also are making soda bread. My family is very Irish, so this is always a day to do something fun.

I kind of like those pants too! As long as the top doesn’t match you’d be okay.
That mascot is hilariously ridiculous.
And thank you so much for all your kind thoughts and words. I’m beyond happy that you like your gifts.
xoxox

I think you could totally rock those pants. I’d wear them if I was your size. Jewelry beautiful, serious envy. Shirt, leave it at thrift store. Mascot too weird. Joe & I worked in the yard all day St. Patty’s Day. Perfect weather, accomplished so much, lots of exercise and wasn’t sore the next three days. WooHoo what a blessing. I used muscles that haven’t been used in a while.

Comments are closed.

Welcome!

I'm Cammy, and after years of the diet cycle--trying, failing, trying, failing, trying--well, you get the picture--I finally discovered a successful path to losing 100 pounds, a path that required slow, gradual changes. Read more...

Looking for something?

Search by category:

Search by month:

Paying My Gym Fees

My Other Blog:

A couple of weeks ago, the produce market sent me home with a bag of apples containing an unadvertised and undesirable “Free Gift with Purchase”: fruit flies! Unfortunately, this happened at a time when I was traveling a bit, and … Continue reading →

I don’t like to brag, but I’m a pretty good speller. I even came in third place in a junior high spelling bee once. (Until a few years ago, I always thought I was first runner-up, but my mother corrected … Continue reading →

During my last post, in which I showed you an easy way to remove sticky spots from the floor, I lamented the sad state of my 40-year old vinyl flooring. All that inherited and ground-in grime that repeated scrubbing with … Continue reading →